@aral I think the W3C is more complex than that. I know many of the people within it.

But if you're concerned about that, also be concerned about the side effects. I've felt this way about some of the ways I've seen you jump in before and, well, I didn't say anything. Admittedly it took something affecting me personally to do so. That's not great.

I do this kind of thing too sometimes. I'm asking you to understand the effect it had on me, so you can be reflective.

It made me stressed and feel negative. If you think this is an exception that's fine, but nothing about the way you wrote that indicated that. Instead I just felt shitty about my work.

FWIW I think the W3C is a flawed institution with some extremely good, heartfelt people working for it. The truth of the matter is, funding anything in our current economic structure is a maddening, nigh-impossible thing, and the W3C chose some approaches and they have had serious consequences, which I agree.

Negativity is okay, it can be useful and powerful. But please also try to temper it with empathy. It's hard to do anything, to make any progress. Jumping into the few places where progress appears to be occuring and saying things like this... it just makes me want to do nothing.